The University of Washington was awarded a $505,045 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems to support research titled "Robot-Assisted Feeding: Towards Efficient, Safe, and Personalized Caregiving Robots." The three-year grant will fund research from January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2025. The research aims to advance the development of caregiving robots that can assist users with feeding in an efficient, safe and...
The University of Washington was awarded a $200,000 Project Grant from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Administration for Children and Families under the Child Care Mandatory and Matching Funds of the Child Care and Development Fund (CFDA 93.596) program. This grant will support research on "Wage Levels and Turnover in the Child Care Workforce: Evidence from Seattle and Washington State" over the period from September 30, 2024 to March 30, 2026. The research aims to...
The National Science Foundation awarded a $581,783 Project Grant to the University of Washington under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070) to support research titled "CAREER: NEW APPROACHES TO MANAGING LIFECYCLES OF DIGITAL KNOWLEDGE COMMONS" from April 1, 2021 through March 31, 2026. The grant funding will support the University of Washington's investigation into new techniques for managing the lifecycles of digital materials shared...
The University of Washington was awarded a $316,356 project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Computer and Network Systems under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering federal grant program (CFDA 47.070). The grant will fund research from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2025 to develop novel algorithms and tools that empower individuals who are blind to safely manage private visual content. The goal is to advance computing and information sciences research...
The National Science Foundation awarded the University of Washington a $1,970,395 Project Grant under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program. The grant will fund the development of optical neural co-processors for predictive and adaptive brain restoration and augmentation to address neurological disorders. Specifically, the university will create new algorithms based on neural signals collected from the brain to provide higher accuracy for brain-inspired computing devices. It will also...
This four-year project grant from the National Science Foundation Division of Information and Intelligent Systems provides $319,077 to the University of Washington for research titled "COLLABORATIVE RESEARCH: SATC: CORE: MEDIUM: FOREGROUNDING BYSTANDERS AS STAKEHOLDERS IN SMART HOME PRODUCT DESIGN." The research will be conducted under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070), which supports investigator-initiated research and education in computing,...
This $1,871,692 Project Grant awarded by the National Science Foundation (NSF) under the Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) will fund research to develop and evaluate an assistive wearable technology (smartwatch application) to improve employment outcomes for neurodiverse workers, such as those with autism spectrum disorders or attention deficit hyperactive disorder. The research will involve controlled experiments and a workplace field study to assess how the wearable technology can enhance...
The University of Washington was awarded a $549,843 National Science Foundation Project Grant under the Computer and Information Science and Engineering program (CFDA 47.070) for the project "CAREER: KNOWLEDGE-RICH NEURAL TEXT COMPREHENSION AND REASONING" from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2026. This Project Grant will support the development of new natural language processing techniques focused on enabling computers to comprehend and reason about text at a deeper level through the...
The National Science Foundation Office of Emerging Frontiers and Multidisciplinary Activities awarded Washington State University a $210,000 Project Grant under the Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences program (CFDA 47.075) for the period of January 1, 2022 through December 31, 2024. The grant funding will support collaborative research to partner construction workers with interactive robot assistants, with the goal of transforming future construction work. Specifically, the university will...
The National Science Foundation (NSF) awarded a $180,499 project grant under its Engineering program (CFDA 47.041) to the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) to develop a real-time, holistic health monitoring system for construction workers. This multidisciplinary research aims to improve worker health and safety by integrating wearable sensor technology, artificial intelligence, and data visualization. Key objectives include designing a flexible wearable sensor to continuously measure...
The National Science Foundation awarded $1,799,998 to the University of Washington under the Engineering (47.041) federal grant program to develop technologies that support equitable working conditions for in-home childcare workers. The project aims to understand risks posed by existing technologies like smart home cameras and hiring platforms, and design new technologies through 2025. Key deliverables include research on how algorithms and parental decisions impact hiring bias, empirical studies with stakeholders to build partnerships, and technical advances like virtual reality training and connection platforms to help workers network for support. The University of Washington will execute the project to develop a comprehensive understanding of the childcare ecosystem and technologies that mutually benefit employees, children and workers through a research-through-design approach and stakeholder evaluations.